Thursday, February 28, 2013

Rippin' that Sh*t

I had planned on another tempo run this week, yesterday as a matter of fact, but I woke up with a headache and nauseated. I haven't had a sip of alcohol for over 2 weeks now and though, uh oh -- stomach flu. I managed to choke down 2 tylenol and sleep until about 11:30pm before getting up for the day (I work at night, so my day usually starts between 5p and 8p).

I procrastinated until about 7:30am and decided to do some intervals instead. Sometimes, I just need to mix it up and I never follow a training plan to a "T" -- it's impossible. I opted for a "FIRST" workout. It was 8 x 500 meters @ 5K pace with 100 meter RI. In hindsight, I should have done 10 x 500 as I ran 3 x 1 mile a few weeks ago, but oh well, I planned to run a long warm-up since it had started to snow and it was 35 degrees and dropping.

After 4 miles of trotting around my neighborhood I hit the 3/4 mile cirlce in the back of my development and hit the lap on my garmin to start my workout. Not having run a race in over 5 months, I thought I would target 7:30-7:40 per mile for the first 4 and try to push the last 4. Here's what I got...